Historical and factual errors have long marred the study materials of the DU School of Open Learning despite calls for reform. ‘A major procedural lapse,’ said Maya John, DU Academic Council member.
With more focus on traditional culture & national security, new textbooks will be rolled out next week and by 2026 will be taught to all grades in primary classes and junior high.
The Delhi launch of ‘The Routledge Companion to Primary Education in India’ by Prof R Govinda was a layered discussion on historical failures and troubling trends in education.
In 2020, education ministry launched IKS division called Bhāratīya Jñāna Paramparā Vibhāga, aiming to promote interdisciplinary & transdisciplinary research on indigenous knowledge.
Palshikar & Yadav, who were chief advisers for political science textbooks, asked NCERT to take their names off last year too, but council refused citing its status as copyright owner.
In the revised NCERT books, Babri Masjid has been termed 'three-domed structure' & several topics have been deleted, including 'rath yatra' and communal violence after demolition.
NCERT says that without these revisions, made in the Class XI political science textbook, the chapter on secularism came across as a 'justification of vote bank politics'.
The BCCI decision has given new life to the lunatic fringe of the Hindu Right. It now has the confidence to force policy changes in accordance with its communal campaigns.
The latest comment comes as New Delhi and Washington have yet to sign a trade agreement. India’s purchase of Russian oil has reduced, but Moscow remains top source for crude.
If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
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